Word: krauss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toscanini. In Munich, the usual Wagner & Mozart Festival takes place from July 23 to August 31 at the Prince Regent and Residence Theatres. Musical events in Vienna and lower Austria from June 2 to 16 include ballets and serenades by the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Schalk and Clemens Krauss; a concert by a choir of 8,000 in front of the City Hall; operettas of Strauss, Suppé, and Offenbach; church concerts in Modling (near Vienna) featuring Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. The Salzburg Festival, August 4 to 30, calls in the assistance of the Vienna Philharmonic. Beethoven...
Last week, in Manhattan, the most discussed musical arrival was Clemens Krauss of Vienna and Frankfort, one of the Continent's outstanding maestros, on his way to be guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. For luggage Conductor Krauss carried the latest novelty from Vienna, a specially constructed suitcase of aluminum and steel to hold music. Customs officers, prodding through his possessions, caused him annoyance by discovering some 250 dutiable cigars. Friends soothed him with the assurance that among Philadelphia's concertgoers is many a person able, alert and eager to send a distinguished new guest conductor some good...
...gave them a novelty-Roussel's Concerto, pleasant and unimportant. Philadelphians held their thumbs and waited. Stokowski is to be with them until late November, back again in late March. Able guest conductors are to be sandwiched in between- Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Bernardino Molinari, Sir Thomas Beecham, Clemens Krauss from Frankfurt (in his U. S. debut). For most Philadelphians, however, only Stokowski can make big music, big surprises...
...Some of them: Tilla Durieux, Elsie Hemis, Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Ernst Lubitsch, Joseph & Rudolph Schild-kraut...
...Symphony Orchestra will reappear next year at his oldtime stand in Carnegie Hall as a guest conductor. Other guests will be Conductors Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera and Ossip Gabrilowitsch of Detroit. And last week the Symphony Society announced who its fourth guest would be-darkly handsome Clemens Krauss, conductor-director of municipal opera at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Herr Krauss, who looks more like a Spanish matador than an orchestra leader, has never visited the U. S. In Europe his fame is wide-as one-time guest conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, as organizer of Wagner festivals...